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03-03-2018 , 07:48 PM

CarloAce

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Join Date: Mar 2018 Posts: 1

Sup Poker family,

Please help me build a PC
I live in California
My budget is roughly $1000-$1200
Plan is to use this PC mostly for online poker

Thanks,

Carlo
Bay 101 Grinder
Garden City Boy

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03-04-2018 , 01:02 PM

sixfour

should be called sevenfour

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 74,707

Define online poker. If you're not using hudbot tools, large databases and a bunch of third party software then any piece of crap released in the last decade, there's a reason why you can play on your phone now. If you are, then I assume your current PC is good enough to be able to load a web browser given you've posted here, then it's also good enough to search/browse this forum and look at the other 78924657901346571346 threads asking the exact same question

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03-04-2018 , 03:58 PM

Go Get It

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 12,506

GL buying a GPU and not massively over paying.

Maybe just get a prebuilt?

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04-06-2018 , 09:43 AM

UnitedAs1

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Originally Posted by Go Get It

GL buying a GPU and not massively over paying.

Maybe just get a prebuilt?

Is a pre build system the way to go now? I built a system a few years back and looking to just sell mine and get a new one. Deciding whether its better to build myself or not. The most intense things I would use it for is gaming.

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04-06-2018 , 09:51 AM

grizy

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It's really nice worth the time/effort to build your own PC now. OEM margins are stupidly thin and it's REALLY good to call just one company for warranty rather than calling the manufacturer of each component.

You can look up videos on this. Building your own PC from scratch doesn't save you much nowadays (even prior to the GPU shortages) so unless you really want a custom look (hi, RGB lighting) you should just config out a prebuilt. Actually even prebuilts got a lot of customization options now.

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04-06-2018 , 12:26 PM

UnitedAs1

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Thanks Grizy

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04-06-2018 , 02:17 PM

sixfour

should be called sevenfour

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Assuming prebuilts actually put decent PSUs in nowadays

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